President Donald Trump said he is moving to ban federal agencies from working with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic after a weeks-long fight between the company and the Pentagon.
Trump is giving federal agencies that currently use Anthropic’s AI tools six months to stop using their models and choose a different provider. This announcement comes after Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, declined to give the Department of Defense unfettered access to his company’s AI models due to concerns about software being used for mass surveillance and fully automated weapons.
“The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology.”